Nine Local Men Charged In Tobacco Theft Case
Local police and FBI agents completed a six day roundup of nine men linked to an interstate cigarette shipment theft from an A C Motor Lines truck on East Lexington avenue. The eight and ninth arrests occurred this week with two men arraigned before U S Commissioner Tom Kennedy. The nine defendants face trial at the Greensboro federal court on December 1.
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FBI
Sai
A. C. Motor Lines
Lexington Avenue
Earl McNeil
Woodberry Street
Earl
U. S
Tom Kennedy
Zeb Hester
Rt. 4
Chestley Kennedy
South West Point Avenue
Federal
Greensboro
Kay Kyser Plans Speeches At Health Convention
Kay Kyser will address the American Hospital Association 49th annual convention in St Louis Sept 22 24 speaking on hospital financing and on organizing public support He is an honorary vice president of the North Carolina Good Health Association and will speak twice at the meeting He will report on North Carolina health campaign and his home state role.
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Durham
North Carolina
United States
Canada
American Hospital Association
St. Louis
George Bugbee
Kay Kyser
Kyser
North Carolina Good Health Association
Three Die in Venice Fire After Tenement Blaze
In Venice Illinois a fire destroyed a frame store and tenement killing Emmett Tucker seventy two Mrs Laura Rochelle seventy one and Charlene Deaver five who died in a St Louis hospital. A further nineteen residents fled in their night clothes as the fire trapped others in their rooms. The cause of the blaze was not determined.
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Venice
Ill
Emmett Tucker
Laura Rochelle
Charlene Deaver
St. Louis
Nettie Clark
David
Cut In American Exports Mounts Into Billions
A London report finds Britain France and Australia cutting imports to conserve dollars. Estimated annual savings total 912 million for Britain and 250 million for France with Australia adding 40 million. Dollar savings hit U.S. exports while Canada also feels the pinch.
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London
Britain
France
Australia
United States
Canada
America
U. S
Pensions For World War I Vets Pushed at VFW Meet
The 48th VFW encampment in Cleveland voted to make pensions for World War I veterans the top legislative objective for the coming year. Rep James E Van Zandt urged passage of HR667 to provide 75 dollars monthly for those 65 and older, noting 3.7 million WWI vets alive and stating costs near 775 million in year one. General A A Vandegrift addressed the gathering as nearly 20,000 delegates registered with many guests present.
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Cleveland
Veterans of Foreign Wars Today
Public Hall
James E. van Zandt
VFW
van Zandt
Virginia Department
A. A. Vandegrift
U. S. Marine Corps
Guards Watch Burnt South Dakota Land
Standby guards patrolled a wide area of smoldering haystacks and blackened prairie after a Friday fire raged across more than 300000 acres in five central South Dakota counties. AnHighmore businessman said full inventory of losses to farms buildings crops hay livestock would take several days.
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Pierre
S. D
South Dakota
Highmore
Lentz Elected President of N. C. Carriers
George D. Lentz mayor of Winston-Salem and head of Lentz Transfer and Storage Co. was elected president of the North Carolina Motor Carriers association at its 16th annual convention in Blowing Rock. W. D. Lewis and George Clay were named first and second vice presidents, with J. T. Outlaw named executive secretary. Miller spoke on Taft Hartley and said the law frees workers and empowers individual rights. Ruggles proposed a scheme.
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Blowing Rock
George D. Lentz
Winston- Salem
Lentz Transfer and Storage Co
North Carolina Motor Carriers Association
W. D. Lewis
Lewis and Holmes Motor Freight Corp
High Point
George Clay
Clay's Transfer Co
Rocky Mount
J. T. Outlaw
Raleigh
Lentz
R. L. Brinson
Miller
Electionsf
Swain Biller
Besian
Totesetel Jaminer
Ector Ustic
Amnestean Trucking Association
FE. W. Ruggles
College Extension Division
North Carolina State College
Ruggles
Anderson Confers On World Aid Plan With Aides
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson met four aides in Albuquerque to discuss prices and Europe’s need to reduce U. S. grain in the coming year. He named Jesse B. Gilmer Ralph S. Trigg Nathan Koenig and R. L. Harrison as attendees and said the meeting did not set price forecasts.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Clinton P. Anderson
Europe
U. S
Anderson
Jesse B. Gilmer
Ralph S. Trigg
PMA
Nathan Koenig
R. L. Harrison
Rail Strike Shuts Down Carnegie-Illinois Mills
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp president C R Cox warned a wildcat rail strike may not end quickly as 15 000 production workers are idled. The walkout, led by Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Locomotive Engineers, halts operations in four Pittsburgh district mills and risks production losses of 16 000 tons. Aimed at pay increases and fringe benefits, talks with union leaders from Cleveland failed to break the stalemate.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
C. R. Cox
Carnegie-Illinois
Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainment
Union Railroad
U. S. Steel
Cox
Walker Lyerly Dies. Longtime Hickory Leader and Ex Mayor
Walker Lyerly aged 68 a prominent Hickory furniture and textile figure and eight term former mayor died in a local hospital. Funeral services set for 5 p m Sunday from his residence. Lyerly led multiple enterprises including Hylan Furniture Co Hickory Furniture Manufacturing Co Elliott Knitting Mills and served on state boards and as Catawba College trustee. He founded the Hickory Community Fund and stepped down as mayor on June 30 after eight consecutive one year terms.
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Hickory
Walker Lyerly
Hickory Furniture and Textile
Thirteenth Avenue
Lyerly
North Carolina Municipal League
State Retirement Board
North Carolina Rivers Purification Commission
Catawba College
Salisbury
Hylan
President Truman Escapes On Slippery Brazilian Road
President Truman’s car skidded on a mountain road near Rio while en route to lunch with Ernesto Fontes. The White House limousine teetered on a cliff edge but was pushed back with help from reporters. Secret service said the president was never in danger.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Truman
Brazil
White House
Ernesto
G. Fontes
Copacabana
James J. Rowley
Secret Service
Rowley
U. S
William D. Pawley
Farley Switches to Truman Full Support in 1948 Race
James A. Farley former postmaster general and former DNC chair told a Lynchburg cattlemen’s meeting he will support and campaign for Harry S. Truman in 1948. He cited domestic and foreign issues as factors and urged voters not to change horses midstream. He blamed the Republican Congress for failing to keep promises, aiding the administration’s position.
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James Farley
Truman
Lynchburg
James A. Farley
National Democratic Committee
Harry S. Truman
Farley
Roosevelt
Republican Congress
Republican Party
Greek Cabinet Offers Amnesty and Jobs to Guerrillas
Athens sources report a new coalition cabinet will grant general amnesty to guerrillas and guarantee them jobs if fighting in the north ends within a month. If leftist assaults against Greek troops continue, the government vows a relentless fight against the criminal minority.
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Athens
Greece
Russia Keeps Veto Demand for Atomic Pact Across Sanctions
Russia refuses to waive its veto on sanctions against violators of a proposed atomic weapons pact and calls for an immediate prohibition on the bomb. Gromyko’s replies to Cadogan outline insistence on veto rights and Security Council control, with an urgent push for a separate prohibition treaty before any control agreement.
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Francis W. Carpenter Lake
Russia
Soviet Union
Andrei A. Gromyko
Alexander Cadogan
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations Security Council
Security Council
Britain
China
France
United States
Alexander
Gromyko
Atomic Commission
Huge Tax Cut GOP Goal For Next Session
Chairman Knutson of the house ways and means committee announced Republicans will renew their drive to cut taxes as soon as Congress reconvenes. The plan gas an anticipated rescue of a vetoed 4 billion dollar bill and considers income tax reductions of up to 50 percent for small incomes and 20 percent for the highest brackets.
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Washington
Knutson
R-Minn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Knutser
Georgia Mills Propose Five Cent Wage Cut
In Rome Georgia on September six a three mill plan by the A D Juillard company to cut wages five cents per hour aims to offset losses at Aragon Rome and Dallas Georgia Textile Workers Union CIO director Kennedy Douty calls it outrageous and says it is the first such proposal in the nation.
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Rome
Georgia
A D. Juillard Company
Kennedy Douty
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Aragon
Dallas
Congress May Be Called Into Extra Session
The state department weighs a temporary aid fund as an advance against the Marshall plan to avert a European economic collapse by December. Officials consider Britain France and Italy key for relief, with talks noting a possible $2 billion figure though exact amounts remain uncertain.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Congress
Europe
State Department
Britain
France
Italy
Executive
Marshall An
Paul H. Nitze
Office of International Trade Policy
The
Radio
NRC
Nitze
Zinc's role in white blood cells linked to leukemia treatment
Harvard and MIT researchers report zinc is vital to white blood cells and that leukemia patients show far lower zinc levels in these cells. Using radioactive zinc tracing, they mapped zinc cycling during white cell formation, suggesting new avenues for treatment though the exact function remains under study.
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ST. Louis
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International Cancer Research Congress
Bert L Vallee
Penn G. Gibson, II
Harvard Medical School
Robly D. Evans
J. E. Nelson
Weather Report From Washington Cotton Regions
Weather bureau report for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. covers temperature readings in principal cotton growing areas and other regions.
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Washington
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TNT
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Cadogan
United Nations
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Advance Fund For Europe
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